Voicing the absented presence of blackness in Canada: a multimodal critical discourse analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilio Amideo
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Black People ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Specific Response ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
To Come

Abstract Canada makes of multiculturalism its trademark in a process caught between a (yet to come) full openness toward cultural and linguistic diversity, and the removal of an ambiguous collective memory rooted in racio-cultural violence. One that at different times in Canadian history considered Black people unwanted citizens, making of their experience an “absented presence” within the Canadian discourse. Drawing on Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, the aim of this essay is to investigate the retrieval of part of that absented presence through an exploration of the 2015 miniseries The Book of Negroes (dir. Clement Virgo) which traces the life story of the West African storyteller Aminata Diallo as she is captured, sold into slavery and then slowly regains her freedom. The essay focuses on the analysis of the different semiotic resources employed in the miniseries and on the way a reflection of their co-articulation contributes not only to the meaning-making potential of the narrative but also to a specific response in the audience. The multiple ‘languages’ of storytelling through which Aminata’s story unfolds emphasise the need for a rethinking of national belonging by way of privileging diasporic affiliations that reject the violence inherent in monolithic and appropriating discourses.

scholarly journals Settlers, Sell-outs and Sons of the Soil: The Creation of Aliens in Zimbabwe and the Challenge for Higher Education

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Munyaradzi Hwami
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Great Zimbabwe ◽  
To Come

The contemporary colonial world is witnessing struggles for domination and existence that have led to exclusion of some groups on the basis of parameters defined by the powerful. This contribution observes practices and policies of belonging and exclusion developing in Zimbabwe and argues that higher education should take the lead in discussing and proposing citizenship education that would produce cosmopolitan patriots, responsible and tolerant citizens. The discussion is a critical discourse analysis of dominant colonial forces of authoritarian nationalism and neoliberalism supplemented by personal experience and engagement with students and faculty at the Great Zimbabwe University. What has been observed is the failure of civil society and state led programmes in this endeavour and the honours rests with higher education institutions to develop citizenship education rooted in ideals that critique hegemonic discourses. This demands a change in perspectival foci and this study advances the adoption of anti-colonial liberationist perspectives as one of the options if an end to classification of citizens as aliens and patriots is to come to an end.

Convergence

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-147
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Social Partnership ◽  
To Come ◽  
Insight Into

Actor network theory as the “sociology of translation,” is used as a lens to examine the chronology of the development of the MOU Agreement, which provides insight into the mechanics of its formation and network of relations. Translation uncovered dimensions of the network's development: why associations between the actors were created, the factors that mobilized these heterogeneous parties to come together. Further, it also uncovered how their functions were ascribed and how stability or “black box” status was achieved. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is positioned as a moment in ANT facilitating the analyses of the network linkages of the MOU actor network assist to identify the interactions at various levels of the MOU social partnership actor network. The two worldviews complement each other within an interpretivist framework revealing the potential to analyse network interactions through the lens of discourse.

The iconic ghetto on British television: Black representation and Top Boy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kehinde Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Black People ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Black Representation ◽  
The Media

The chapter explores the importance of the concept of the iconic ghetto, examining its discursive importance in reproducing racism. It has particular resonance given that the majority of black people live in concentrated areas of urban centres and therefore how they are represented to the broader society through the media has major consequences. The essay develops a critical discourse analysis of Top Boy to understand how the iconic ghetto is reproduced throughout the show. From this analysis, the basis of the iconic ghetto that was portrayed throughout the show becomes apparent and is captured in the number of themes explored including the proliferation of poverty, crime and violence agency, a lack of female and agency and ultimately blaming the black communities for the problems the show exaggerates.

Discourse Approaches

2019 ◽  
pp. 212-220
Author(s):  
Johannes Angermuller ◽  
Raj Kollmorgen
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discourse Studies

As a practice of meaning making in society, discourse points to important dimensions of social and historical change. This chapter discusses examples of discourse research on social transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. It shows how methods from linguistic, semiotic, and cultural theory can be used to account for a changing social order (e.g., how change is narrated in Russia during the perestroika period or how Eastern Germans are represented in Western media discourse after the reunification). Against a background in Discourse Studies, we put special emphasis on macrosociological views of discursive change, which one can find, for instance, in Foucault’s power/knowledge approach, Laclau/Mouffian hegemony analysis, and Critical Discourse Analysis. The chapter concludes by pointing out the strengths as well as the limits of discourse research, which is based on the idea that language not only represents social realities but, through representation, also contributes to creating them.

The stereotypical, mythical, and peace journalism representation of blackness through news storytelling content in racial democracies : a critical discourse analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Carlos A. Cortes-Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Black People ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Peace Journalism ◽  
Feature Writing ◽  
Racial Harmony ◽  
The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) explores how well-established news storytellers represent people of African descent in contexts where racial oppression is supposedly over. In a moment when news storytelling has gained momentum, the reconstruction of the archive of one of the most prominent magazine outlets in the Americas, from 1999 to 2017, allowed an examination of the potential of feature writing to work towards social justice. Despite the discourse of all races as equal and the current popularity of news storytelling, the findings show that feature writing in SoHo, a Colombian men's monthly publication, marginalizes and stereotypes black communities. Moreover, SoHo fosters a narrative of racial harmony that ignores the structural inequalities that black people face. Borrowing from the literature on stereotypes, myths, and peace journalism (PJ), this investigation restructures a model that explains the relationship between news and racism, describes the particularities of the discourse of racial democracies and offers practical guidance in terms of how to improve the coverage of racial minorities.

scholarly journals The Role of Critical Discourse in the Reproduction of Social and Political Power

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Abasel Dehchnashki ◽  
Zahra Kohi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Social Differences ◽  
The Common

<p>Nowadays with increasing theoretical criticism of positivism approach, many social and humanities scientists emphasize qualitative methods of research rather than quantitative data collection and statistical analysis. One of the common methods of qualitative research is critical discourse analysis. From the perspective of philosophy, critical discourse analysis is based on structuralism which emphasizes human role (i.e. reduces reality to human structures). This article is to present a review of the origins of critical discourse analysis and influential theoretical schools and expresses the most common and different approaches. The article analyzes the logical implications of the structural foundations of critical discourse analysis. It also comes to the conclusion that diversity in discourse is inseparable from social and political factors. As a result, linguistic diversity reflects structured social differences that creates it.</p>

scholarly journals Signs of Colonial Discourse and their Psycho-Semiotic Significance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahzad-ul-Hassan Farooqi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Sign Theory ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
Linguistic Practices

Colonial discourse is defined as a “complex of signs and practices” (Ashcraft, Griffiths, &amp; Tiffin, 1998, p.235). In the light of this statement this research article investigates following main questions. 1-What are those signs and practices which constitute colonial discourse? 2- How do they signify according to semiotic theory? This article is a philosophical endeavour to develop conclusive argument to determine the psycho-semiotic nature of those meaning making practices which form the very basis of the colonial discourse. The aim of this study is to establish a triangular link of the sign theory, psychological conditioning and colonial discourse. Fairclough’s (1995) triadic model of Critical Discourse Analysis has been used to analyse various linguistic practices of colonisers at Description—Interpretation—Explanation levels. After exemplifying from various texts, the study concludes that colonial signs are psychologically conditioned, discursively conventionalised and socially upheld linguistic practices which disseminate ideas they stand for. Hence, colonialism is not only a historical fact but also a linguistically and semiotically crafted phenomenon. The article lays down a vivid criterion which can serve for further analytical studies in the domain of colonial and post-colonial discourse.

scholarly journals Functional-Stylistic Analysis of Pre –Election Campaign Discourse

2018 ◽  
pp. 16-20
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Political Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Usa ◽  
To Come

The paper examines expressive means in D. Trump’s and H. Clinton’s pre-election discourse, which is considered in syntactic level, the field of the pre-election campaign 2016. Pre-election discourse is a topical direction of modern linguistics as in the period of holding of election campaigns the activity of political figures who use multiple linguistic means aimed at making electors’ to come to a necessary decision increases considerably. The analysis is conducted on official websites of both politicians, opened for the elections held in 2016 in the USA. It focuses on the expressive means in the texts of politicians in the first, second and third debates. The study is based on the theory of critical discourse analysis (Van Dijk, 2009), political discourse analysis and the theory of expressive analysis. The structural analysis shows the most wide-spread expressive means functioned in the texts of both politicians. А content analysis is viewed as expressive means (ellipse, reduplication, parceling) of the pre-election discourse to compare the number of expressive means used in both politicians’ discourse. The research gives a description and analysis of the expressive means in pre-election discourse.

scholarly journals Words, Corpus and Back to Words: From Language to Discourse

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (22) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Miguel Fuster-Márquez ◽  
Moisés Almela
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Lexical Relations ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Selection Of

The aim of this issue of is to bring together investigation into the lexicon in a variety of languages, in a diversity of manifestations – both at the word level and beyond the word level – and from a variety of perspectives, including not only those which focus on how the vocabulary is internally organized, but also those which deal with the role that lexical units and lexical relations play in the organization of other language levels, particularly in the organization of the discourse. These issues are approached from a variety of perspectives that include not only developments in several disciplines of theoretical and descriptive linguistics, particularly in lexicology, phraseology, word formation, discourse analysis, but also in diverse applied disciplines such as translation, foreign language teaching, English for specific purposes and critical discourse analysis. One of the criteria employed in the compilation of the volume was also the coverage of linguistic diversity. In total, six different languages are investigated in the studies selected in this volume: English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian. Without claiming exhaustiveness, we consider that the variety of contributions presented here offers an insight into the vigour of current corpus research into phenomena related to the lexicon. Admittedly, the full range of topics, approaches and methodologies developed in this area of research could not fit in a single volume, but a careful selection of studies representing a variety of interesting advances can be representative of significant developments taking place in the field.

Analyzing neoliberal discourse: An integrated dialectical-relational critical discourse analysis-discourse theory framework utilizing conceptual metaphor

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-170
Author(s):  
Marissa K. L. E
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Nodal Point ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Primary Basis ◽  
Education Discourse

AbstractAn integrated Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)-Discourse Theory (DT) framework is proposed that utilizes the Dialectical-Relational (DR) approach from CDA as its primary basis and incorporates DT concepts of articulation and nodal point to further develop DR and thus enhance descriptions and analyses of the complex, shifting and contingent nature of meaning making in discourses of late modernity that impact the construction of social realities (logic) and subjectivity. This paper argues that the addition of the above DT concepts enhances the description and analysis of the dynamics of meaning making by focusing on shifting and contingent meanings present in discourses operating within and between particular social contexts as a means to specifically and systematically capture the influence of context-specific ideologies. Furthermore, using DR allows for the inclusion of the relative permanence of social structures in dialectical relation with processes of meaning making which avoids the risk of a radical contingency that DT potentially entails. The framework is demonstrated using conceptual metaphors in the context of Singapore higher education discourse to show how neoliberalism as a seemingly hegemonic phenomenon operates as a variegated mobile technology adapting to its specific context by manifesting context-specific meanings, thus reflecting characteristics of complexity, non-permanence and contingency.

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